Here’s a little important non-primary related activism for readers from Senator Barbara Boxer in the wake of Bush’s latest too little too late global warming plan: Dear Friend: On Wednesday, President Bush delivered what was billed as a major speech on global warming. What a disaster! Rather than staking out a set of ambitious goals for America to strive for, the President argued that the United States should do nothing about global warming until 2025. I can’t believe he...
Environment
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
It’s smells like a pep rally burning out of control, in my front yard. Today’s Ten Post Round-Up might singe your eyebrows: 1: What a relief! The Cheney sunglasses mystery is solved!… Image In Cheney’s Glasses Actually Bush’s Eternal Soul–CAP News 2: Ahem–Attention American Taxpayers: You are supposed to squander your stimulus check NOT pay bills with it! Putting it away for your own benefit is not why we are sending it to you… Economic Stimulus: Good for individuals...
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
I’m on fire, right now, as I have a lot on my mind. I’m sure many of you are getting worked up about the same things that are sticking in my craw. Yet, when I try to express myself in a coherent fashion, it comes out on the page looking something like ”akjf;laghoehtoieWTFgj;akjoijfoidjAHHHH!” Of course, I “know” what it says, but it’s impossible to translate. I have plenty of time to think of these things, as I go about...
Breaking
US Water Pipelines Are Breaking… I know a little bit about what happens when water pipes break.
Murder in an Alaskan Forest
No one—at least no human—knows his name, or even if he had a name. We don’t know where or when he was born. We know nothing about his life. But we know a lot about his death. A politician/trapper from northeast Pennsylvania went to Alaska and killed him. We know this because the local newspaper opened almost a full page to tell us about the glorious hunt. The story included two pictures. One three-column picture showed Mighty Trapper,...
States File Lawsuit Against EPA to Move on Global Warming
A coalition of “18 states, two cities and 11 environmental groups” has fikled a lawsuit against the Bush administration “to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked what justices called inaction on global warming.” In April 2007, the Supreme Court said “that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is a pollutant subject to the Clean Air Act” and the court “directed the EPA to determine if carbon dioxide emissions, linked to global warming, endanger public health and welfare.” Sphere:...
Breaking: Al Gore Will Run for President
A lot of Democrats still hold on to hope that Al Gore will run for president again. Well, hope no longer… Grist.org has the scoop, which just arrived in my email box: Al Gore Will Run for President: You might want to sit down for this: Al Gore will announce his candidacy for president this week, knowledgeable sources tell Grist. Now there’s an inconvenient truth for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Gore believes the two Democrats and Republican John...
Hillary’s Green Agenda
As the sound-bites and gotchas from the earliest presidential debates have been repeated over and over by the media in this election cycle, many critical and complex topics have gotten at best cursory treatment. One such topic is the environment: the crises we’re facing, the accomplishments of the candidates, and the plans that they have put forward on issues like green energy, global warming, pollution, and wildlife conservation. Hillary’s agenda Hillary Clinton has stressed repeatedly, and in detail, a...
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